As a new member on this forum let me first thank you for all your great plugins!

I would like to make a suggestion for foo_utils: You can add/send/.... tracks to active playlist or to specified playlist. But I miss the opportunity to manipulate the playing playlist. What do you think?

I was thinking it will be interresting to add to the "text tools" :- accessing easily to multiple configurations (saving them to files or with some selector)- the ability to do POST method on web sites (as it we can easily maintain our own website music database, with personal discography and/or statistics).

And that POST idea lead me to the idea to do the oposite, i.e. to have some plugin using GET method from a website, that can give the ability to get informations directly into tags from web sites. I use this functionality with my Films-DB (Ant Movie Catalog - http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog ) This software includes the ability to create scripts to get information from websites. These scripts permits to look for tags into webpage and to extract information between the given tags.

I was thinking it will be interresting to add to the "text tools" :- accessing easily to multiple configurations (saving them to files or with some selector)- the ability to do POST method on web sites (as it we can easily maintain our own website music database, with personal discography and/or statistics).

Adding multiple presets is planned for the future, along with moving this functionality to its own components (probably foo_text_tools).

QUOTE (SoulMan @ Jun 8 2006, 11:18)

And that POST idea lead me to the idea to do the oposite, i.e. to have some plugin using GET method from a website, that can give the ability to get informations directly into tags from web sites. I use this functionality with my Films-DB (Ant Movie Catalog - http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog ) This software includes the ability to create scripts to get information from websites. These scripts permits to look for tags into webpage and to extract information between the given tags.

Yes, I think you are right, the get function is out of the scop of this component.

But, I think the POST method is in the scope and can be an interresting thing.Can be interresting for foosic too, this can be a most standard way to upload data to foosic site, and using a most standard way, much players can easily interact with it.

Yes, I know that, but, what I was trying to explain is if foosic was using HTTP POST (that is a most standard than proprietary TCP and UDP protocols), that can facilitate others players to interact with foosic.

But, the my main idea was not to change foosic submission protocol, it was just to add to "text utils" the ability to upload informations to personal web sites.

Another request about text tools: add something by default like that:$replace(%album%,é,&eacute;,è,&egrave;,ï,&iuml;,î,&icirc;,ç,&ccedil;) with all characters like that to get proper names. (for the moment we get something like $@$ or similar things for those characters)

I was able to assign a keyboard shortcut to Edit Other - Add to Playlist : PLAY. This particular playlist functions as an editable playback queue. The shortcut works perfectly as long as the playlist PLAY exists, doesn't if not.Request: auto create non-existing playlists if necessary. Would preserve similar shortcuts from becoming obsolete, i.e. for less permanent playlists like 'Copy to Pod', 'Music for my Cat', ...

I have but one request concerning text tools: could you make the variables' values persist between 'Body' cycles? As far as I understand, this is the only way to output Artist's name only once for his whole discography.If you do, then it'll be possible to output playlist info in the way similar to this mp3tag's export. Or even port its configuration.